7-Shot Autonomous Club

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

But you have to be fast enough to do it. I expect most elimination alliances will have 3 robots shooting for the high goal, and one of them with a 5 or 7 disc auto. This means, in general, one of the "wing" robots will have to shoot their 3 discs off and then beat their opponent to the center. If you mis-judge the distance and cross over the centerline, overshoot and hit them it's an instant Tech Foul (which is worth almost double what those two extra discs would have been).

I agree it's possible, and teams will attempt it (and some will be successful), but it's not quite as easy as a "drive backwards and hit them" type deal.

The defensive team just needs to get their bumpers over the discs, that requires far less accuracy than the team that has to collect the discs. That means it should be done faster than the team lining up for collection. All I'm suggesting is it's far easier than actually scoring them. They only get the tech foul if they completely leave their side of the field and touch another robot which is a large overshoot.